Basta
Asinum stravit, et, ut rustice loquar, superposuit Bastas, in quarum una lipsanum Sancti posuit,in alia Gausbertum puerum suum recondidit .
ferreet
portare, deducit Salmasius. Alii vocem effictam ex
Bastays. Lit. remiss. ann. 1459. in Reg. 188. Chartoph. reg. ch. 200 :
Le suppliant lui avoit bien dit qu'il lui tourneroit ladite selle comme un Bastays.Fictitia est originatio a voce Græca
Falconet.
Bastage,
Equo Bastato positus, etc. Salma Bastatain voce Quartagium.
Baste, in Arvernensi tractu
Bachole, in Bituricensi
Tine, in Aniciensi
Balaste. Vas est ligneum circulis et duabus ansis instructum. Hinc
Jumentum deferre dicitur duas Bastas vindemiæ, vini, aquæ, etc. Vide Banastum.
Que toutes pieces qui auront Bastes soudées, soit pour mettre sur soye, ou ailleurs, ne puissent être clouées, mais couzues à l'aiguille.Stat. Mantuæ lib. 1. cap. 41. ex
Quia jam pluries est compertum per officiales et custodes carcerum ipsorum, in damnum et jacturam creditorum ad quorum postulationem sunt carcerati, vel in detrimentum et offensam reipublicæ carceratos inter Bastas non detineri,... licet intra ostia, sive foris dictorum carcerum, et ex hoc creditores læduntur et respublica offenditur ; ideo statuimus et ordinamus, quod dicti custodes teneantur et debeant dictos carceratos inclusos tenere inter Bastam vel stellatam, et non alibi.Vide Bastia.
BASTA a town of Calabria, described by Pliny (Plin. Nat. 3.11. s. 16) as situated between Hydruntum and the Iapygian Promontory. Its name is still retained by the little village of Vaste near Poggiardo, about 10 miles SW. of Otranto, and 19 from the Capo della Leuca (the Iapygian Promontory). Galateo, a local topographer of the 16th century, speaks of the remains of the ancient city as visible in his time; while without the walls were numerous sepulchres, in which were discovered vases, arms, and other objects of bronze, as well as an inscription, curious as being one of the most considerable relics of the Messapian dialect. (Galateo, de Situ Iapygiae, pp. 96, 97; Romanelli, vol. 2. p. 30, 31; Gruter, Inscr. pp. 145-5; Mommsen, Unter Italischen Dialekte, p. 52--56.)
The BASTERBINI of Pliny, mentioned by him shortly afterwards among the Calabrorum Mediterranei,m ust certainly be the inhabitants of Basta, though the ethnic form is curious.
[E.H.B]This Messapian center was placed by Pliny (HN 3.100) between Hydruntum (modern Otranto) and the Japigio Promontory (modern Capo di Leuca). Its name is preserved in the village of Vaste, near Poggiardo, where there remain the ruins of megalithic city walls. Archaeological documentation of a settlement of the 9th-8th c. B.C. is preserved in the National Museum at Taranto. The Provincial Museum at Lecce contains much funerary material of the 4th-3d c. B.C. from the necropolis of the city, as well as interesting Messapian inscriptions of the same age.
BIBLIOGRAPHYW. Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, I (1856) 380 (E. H. Bunbury); RE III.1 (1897) 110 (Hüllsen); M. Mayer, Apulien (1914) 76; K. Miller, Itineraria Romana (1916) 223; M. Bernardini, Panorama archeologico dell'estremo Salento (1955) 50; O. Parlangeli, Studi Messapici (1960) 179.
F. G. LO PORTO